Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash
---- Leonard Cohen

Monday, May 25, 2015

Canter Tales....

The contrast is so in-your-face. Today's digitised, mechanical 3-D printing, and yet again, today's careful, unmemorized, but lovingly remembered, and moulded craft, that harks back to a time, when things were so personalized.

My friend Vidya Vartak Joshi, posted this amazing sculpting of a horse , which she obtained at the Devrai Art Village in Panchgani , in the mountains near Wai. Devrai Art Village is an NGO that works
with Adivasi craftsmen evolving new products suited to contemporary
tastes using traditional means.

The background of the photograph, simply spoke volumes.

And the words got off to a trot.....

Thosecrafted with digits of knowledge,printed for posterityin books perused while coffeeing ,speed, accelerate, flyand stop,kowtowing only to numbers.

Somecrafted withemotional memories,careful encompassingby artistic hands,a nurturing and mouldingof imagesof their companionsin the business of life,happily canter through your mind,bringing a smile,as you waitfor a tail to swish,a look, and a neighsaying,"Remember the childhood rides ?....."